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Pastor DeForest Soaries Jr,<\/strong><\/a> with some profound wisdom about living debt and delinquency and deficit free. The strategy has four Gs: Get started, Get control, Get ahead, and Give back.<\/p>\n

Kris and I have been living this wisdom for 35 + years, and we are glad \u2014 at this age \u2014 that we made that commitment decades back.<\/p>\n

My congregation embarked upon a debt-free mission five years ago that has reaped tremendous rewards for many of our families. The mission is called \u201cdfree<\/a>\u201d and the \u201cd\u201d stands for debt, delinquencies and deficits. We are attempting to break the culture of debt that has become a plague in our society and start a family-based economic empowerment movement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The implications are simple and they are profound for families all over the nation.<\/p>\n
How have you been able to incorporate some of these principles? <\/strong><\/p>\n
Now how about if our Federal Government hired Pastor Soaries and let him go to work in each Dept in DC?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pastor DeForest Soaries Jr, with some profound wisdom about living debt and delinquency and deficit free. The strategy has four Gs: Get started, Get control, Get ahead, and Give back. Kris and I have been living this wisdom for 35 + years, and we are glad \u2014 at this age \u2014 that we made that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1732],"tags":[2424],"class_list":["post-9415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-issues","tag-debt-free"],"yoast_head":"\nD-Free<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pastor DeForest Soaries Jr, with some profound wisdom about living debt and delinquency and deficit free. 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